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Rob Fraser (he/him) @squireknottyash.bsky.social · 20h

Gaza politicized a generation of teens: they’ll be voting in the next election. They won’t be voting for people who facilitated and/or denied genocide.

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Rob Fraser (he/him) @squireknottyash.bsky.social · 23h

Most surprising credit in a forthcoming awards season movie?

‘And Jim Belushi as Ken Kesey’

Rob Fraser (he/him) @squireknottyash.bsky.social · 1d

Wilder said something to the effect that he liked that character a lot and enjoyed David Lean paying his own tribute by dropping him fully formed into Bridge On The River Kwai.

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Rob Fraser (he/him) @squireknottyash.bsky.social · 1d

On Paul Simon’s birthday I like to recall the time he was on Going Live and Phillip Schofield reverentially asked ‘where IS the Bridge over troubled water’ and Simon muttered ‘it’s kind of metaphorical…’

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Rob Fraser (he/him) @squireknottyash.bsky.social · 2d

Vs. Pearl Jam’s second album. No idea what possessed me to buy it. I never even bought the first one, with the hits.

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Pete Paphides @petepaphides.bsky.social · 4d

I'd love to know what every comedian who played the Riyadh Comedy Festival thinks of this piece by Jonathan Liew. It's an electrifying read. And really hard to think what any counter-justification from the participating comics would consist of. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

We know what the comedians got out of the Riyadh comedy festival. What about the Saudi regime? | Jonathan Liew

The tawdry event was an ultimately doomed attempt by the Saudi government to buy the kind of authentic grassroots culture it is unwilling to countenance, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Liew

www.theguardian.com

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Rob Fraser (he/him) @squireknottyash.bsky.social · 3d

www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvW9...
She was so cool and funny and talented and smart.

Diane Keaton: "You'd be so nice nice to come to"

YouTube video by Ricardo Leitner

www.youtube.com

Rob Fraser (he/him) @squireknottyash.bsky.social · 3d

Unsolicited Rik pick pic

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Rob Fraser (he/him) @squireknottyash.bsky.social · 3d

That Rivera Touch
#mexicanmorecambeandwise

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Rob Fraser (he/him) @squireknottyash.bsky.social · 3d

New record from @warringtonruncorn.com - always a cause for celebration

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Rob Fraser (he/him) @squireknottyash.bsky.social · 5d

It’s a travesty that, in the final years of his life, nobody got Cash to make five albums covering a varied selection of classic and contemporary songs, maybe with a hip producer and cool guest vocalists paying homage.
Such a missed opportunity. Imagine if he’d made a video to reach the MTV crowd.

Rob Fraser (he/him) @squireknottyash.bsky.social · 6d

Girlfriend of one of the founders of Antifa

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Rob Fraser (he/him) @squireknottyash.bsky.social · 7d

Clegg is anti Compo in this instance.

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Rob Fraser (he/him) @squireknottyash.bsky.social · 7d

Tell you what Kemi - I’ll pay back the cost of my three year rip off English Studies degree if HMRC refund the tax I’ve paid during the 26 year self employed career that course helped me establish.
Deal?

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Rob Fraser (he/him) @squireknottyash.bsky.social · 7d

Tolkien hated The Beatles.

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Rob Fraser (he/him) @squireknottyash.bsky.social · 7d

www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBH2...
This is excellent, and does the great man justice.
It’s coming to Prime but if you get the chance to see it in a cinema you should.

Kenny Dalglish | Official trailer 🎥🔴

YouTube video by Amazon Prime Video Sport

www.youtube.com

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Rob Fraser (he/him) @squireknottyash.bsky.social · 7d

Saw A House of Dynamite - weird how its depiction of a functional, broadly decent United States government feels like it belongs in one of those parallel universe/alternate history movies.

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Rob Fraser (he/him) @squireknottyash.bsky.social · 7d

Under May he used to be wheeled out to do media appearances after a fuck up, of which there were many. I remember saying at the time - ‘this gobshite is shameless, he’ll go far’

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Rob Fraser (he/him) @squireknottyash.bsky.social · 8d

I think in the first act I was tense for that very reason and a bit distanced from it. Second act I was a mess, completely swept along.

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Rob Fraser (he/him) @squireknottyash.bsky.social · 8d

I’ll raise a glass in his honour

A small Guinness will suffice.

Rob Fraser (he/him) @squireknottyash.bsky.social · 10d

I’ve never seen Top Gun

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Rob Fraser (he/him) @squireknottyash.bsky.social · 10d

Absolutely. There are times to be a fan and times to be a supporter.

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Rob Fraser (he/him) @squireknottyash.bsky.social · 11d

Congratulations to @francespoet.bsky.social and all involved in Small Acts of Love at Glasgow Citizens Theatre. Cried three times.

Bluesky

Congratulationsfrancespoet.bsky.social

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Rob Fraser (he/him) @squireknottyash.bsky.social · 11d

You’ve got a night out on the ale lined up but you absolutely have to go with the cast of Made In Chelsea OR the cast of TOWIE. Who do you pick and where in Liverpool are you taking them?

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Rob Fraser (he/him) @squireknottyash.bsky.social · 12d

Richard Curtis and Dawn French zooming as we speak

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